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Per conversation last week with Rich and Matt, while we want to have a Guestconv C API which is relatively easy to bind to across different languages, for the sake of expediency we want to the do the actual work in Python. The idea is that the C API will spawn a python process when guestconv_create is called and ultimately be responsible for terminating the process. Communication between the two process happens over pipe(2). From the Python perspective, we will simply listen on stdin for "commands" (there will be a command per API call: guestconv_add_drive, guestconv_root,...

guestconv will be a new, re-usable library to perform guest OS conversions when moving between hypervisors. I've attached 3 files to this email which are relevant to the proposed API. guestconv.h is the proposed C binding. example.c is the simplest possible usage of the API. It converts the first detected root of the guest, accepting all defaults. root.xml is an example description